screen reader users, beware. here be a lot of other languages in the image description
Here's the CD if you're curious
screen reader users, beware. here be katakana and romaji.
I'll be honest, I find Japanese interesting for a lot of reasons, but one of them is the way it just sometimes throws english words written in katakana at you. Like, the driver CD for my drawing tablet has "Installation CD" written in a bunch of languages, except Japanese, where it's a "タブレットドライバ CD" (taburetto doraiba CD), which is just "Tablet Driver CD" written in katakana. It amuses and interests me all at once.
(and also arguably the whole cultural deal with Chinese labor being "cheap" has more to do with USA and other nations exploiting them than with China itself, thanks to how capitalism works)
and this take is absolutely correct. the fault of a low-quality (even if potentially life-threatening) product doesn't lie within an entire nation. like the USA never built something that failed in a fatal manner before either https://twitter.com/Coatduck/status/1517279254832205827
Amazon did not cut corners on their multimeter, Amazon never made a multimeter. all their Amazon basics stuff is dropshipped from the lowest bidder manufacturer. you can get higher quality things for cheaper on AliExpress guaranteed. please stop buying from Amazon
RT @Coatduck@twitter.com
I almost died today because amazon cut corners on safety features on their knockoff of a multimeter
All of this to say: give your fursona glow-in-the-dark fur, heterochromia, psychic powers, the size of the moon, just go wild honestly. Cringe is dead. Optimize for fun, not for social acceptability
I think anyone who knows me in the slightest should know that I am 100% for doing "cringy" stuff, but one specific thing that upsets me is the trope of making fun of someone's fursona
It just feels so unnecessarily mean. Making fun of someone's appearance is bad enough but it's arguably worse when it's something they have _chosen_ and _made_ and put effort and creativity into and, in some cases, represents what they wish they looked like
Lowe's didn't have any two-prong polarized plug, so it's a 3-prong without the ground pin connected, which is probably bad, but I'm more concerned about making sure the switch I installed is switching across live, so I'll take this.
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